A Project by Any Other Name…
Monday, July 27, 2009 6:55 PM by Betty Brennan in General

After four years here at Taylor, I have a small chunk of company history under my belt. Being able to refer back to earlier projects is used as a shorthand way of describing a new project. This is similar to the way new movie ideas are pitched in Hollywood – “It’s a cross between Thelma and Louise and Bambi, but with nuns…” So at Taylor we’ll refer to a new job (or a Request for Proposals) as, “It’s like Stone Mountain, but underwater, and with touch screens…”
This is all fine and dandy when we all call a project the same thing. But what about new people, who don’t know that “Synergy” is the exhibit with our amazing floating whales down at Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve outside St. Augustine, Florida (maybe you can see why we called it Synergy, after the designer)?
A project gets its first name when it is going through the bid process. This name usually includes the municipal or state agency if it’s a government job as well as the designer if we are working as a subcontractor. The location gets tacked on at the end. So we end up with something like, “St Petersburg City of – Boyd Hill Nature Preserve – Tampa Bay Watershed Banners.” Just glides off the tongue, right? By the time the project gets to the production floor, things get shortened a bit. There was one job that ended up being called “Rancho Taco Grande” because the real name was so unwieldy. If we can whittle the project name down to one word – sweet! To the uninitiated, it sounds pretty cryptic as staff talk about Frying Pan, Pentagon, or Cleveland, but that’s the Taylor lingo. And one of our new projects does have nuns…
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